John Calvin Quotes
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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People who have seen my movies don't look at me like an idol. They just give me a lot of love and respect.
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God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.
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We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.
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Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded...
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It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
